Swimming 'to the left' gets bacteria upstream, may promote infection

Yale engineers who study both flow hydrodynamics and how bacteria propel themselves report that one reason for the high incidence of infections associated with catheters in hospital patients may be that some pathogenic bacteria swim "to the left," in a study published in Physical Review Letters.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news91717827.html">Swimming 'to the left' gets bacteria upstream, may promote infection</a></p> <p>Yale engineers who study both flow hydrodynamics and how bacteria propel themselves report that one reason for the high incidence of infections associated with catheters in hospital patients may be that some pathogenic bacteria swim "to the left," in a study published in <i>Physical Review Letters</i>.</p>